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Peer reviewedPhatkathi, Timothy Sizwe – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2002
A participant-observation study in a South African mining company that used self directed work team training identified organizational constraints that hindered training effectiveness: lack of materials, machinery breakdown, decentralized budget, and imposed standards. Miners more often used improvisation and initiative to solve daily problems,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Labor Force Development, Mining, Organizational Change
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This document contains three papers from a symposium on team-based work in human resource development (HRD). "Toward Transformational Learning in Organizations: Effects of Model-II Governing Variables on Perceived Learning in Teams" (Blair K. Carruth) summarizes a study that indicated that, regardless of which Model-II variable (valid…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Case Studies, Conferences, Cooperation
